Elon Musk Buys Twitter

[Gorsameth]

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture...as-1235146555/



WOULD YOU LIKE TO CARRY ELON MUSKS SPERM INSIDE YOU AND CREATE A BABY? WOULD YOU LIKE TO MOVE TO A COMPOUND AND LIVE WITH ELON? ARE YOU DEEPLY MENTALLY UNWELL AND THIS SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD IDEA?

We're watching the richest man in the world melt down like a fuckin incel in real time. Fucking wild.

Elon has long been in the "we must breed to save the human race" camp.

[PhaelixWW]

Elon has long been in the "we must breed to save the human race" camp.

Eh, I'm not even sure he believes in the human race at all.

He's long believed that we're living in a computer simulation.

[Flarelaine]

Eh, I'm not even sure he believes in the human race at all.

He's long believed that we're living in a computer simulation.

That certainly explains the main character syndrome.

[Odinfrost]

So apparently Musk's canvassing efforts involved flying in people from out of state under false pretenses, giving them incredibly high targets and threatening to withhold payment for lodging and transportation back home if they didn't meet them, and bussing them around to their neighborhoods in the back of a U-Haul:
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-mus...ichigan-uhaul/

There's gotta be something illegal involved there, yes? Mostly looking at the false pretensing and stranding them after flying them over under false pretenses

[Corvus]

Despite being ordered to show up in court, Musk decided not to.

[Jessicka]

Despite being ordered to show up in court, Musk decided not to.

Sounds like someone needs deporting if they don't like the laws of the land.

[Gabriel]

Eh, I'm not even sure he believes in the human race at all.

He's long believed that we're living in a computer simulation.

All the morons talking about how "we must save the human race from extinction by making more babies" actually mean "We need more white babies".

[Edge-]

Despite being ordered to show up in court, Musk decided not to.

I'm confused by this.

So his lawyers argument is, "The PAC is a federally registered entity so we are immune from state laws."? Because that's what it reads like.

And it just got...moved to federal court? I need to drink a cup of coffee and do more reading because this makes no sense to me.

[Endus]

Elon has long been in the "we whites must breed to save the human white race" camp.

Apologies for the "correction" method, but I felt it was the easiest way to get across the point.

These chucklefucks are also always the first people to complain about immigrants crossing the southern border (so, not "whites") having too many kids. They're not concerned with humanity. They're concerned about the racist fiction of "whiteness".

[Paranoid Android]

So...



I check this is legit: https://x.com/iamyesyouareno/status/1851915089462366552

The dumb white supremacist can't separate that all other "prides" came after white supremacy in reaction to "white pride".

Then the classic Elon tagging ADL which is he saying the Jewish cabal is behind this. Clearly antisemitism.

Remember for some here the ADL with Jonathan Greenblatt as head, has become a joke basically giving Elon a multitude of passes on his antisemitism. So don't expect no pushback.

Edit: If you didn't figure out that account is a white supremacist account.

[Edge-]

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) said that his office asked Elon Musk, the owner of X, and the leadership of other social platforms to take down a video purporting to show a Haitian immigrant with multiple Georgia IDs who claimed to have voted multiple times.

The secretary’s office said that the video is false and it is working to identify where the video originated. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is also investigating the matter, according to a press release.

“This is false, and is an example of targeted disinformation we’ve seen this election. It is likely foreign interference attempting to sow discord and chaos on the eve of the election,” Raffensperger said in a statement on Thursday night.

“In the meantime, we ask Elon Musk and the leadership of other social media platforms to take this down. This is obviously fake and part of a disinformation effort. Likely it is a production of Russian troll farms,” Raffensperger added in the statement.

I wonder if Leon will actually do anything about this or if instead he'll mock Raffensperger. Time will tell!

[Cthulhu 2020]

So apparently Musk's canvassing efforts involved flying in people from out of state under false pretenses, giving them incredibly high targets and threatening to withhold payment for lodging and transportation back home if they didn't meet them, and bussing them around to their neighborhoods in the back of a U-Haul:
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-mus...ichigan-uhaul/

Let's be real, he probably hired some canvassing managers, gave them some money and told them to reach a certain number of canvassed people. Those managers then hired random schmucks who were roped into this and found themslves basically being threatened to canvass unrealistic numbers of people or not get paid. Everything that Leon directly oversees is a shit show. It's why everything he's not direcetly involved with succeeds, and why everything he touches fails. He's spending a lot of money trying to get Trump elected and it'll all go up in smoke.

[Pannonian]

Let's be real, he probably hired some canvassing managers, gave them some money and told them to reach a certain number of canvassed people. Those managers then hired random schmucks who were roped into this and found themslves basically being threatened to canvass unrealistic numbers of people or not get paid. Everything that Leon directly oversees is a shit show. It's why everything he's not direcetly involved with succeeds, and why everything he touches fails. He's spending a lot of money trying to get Trump elected and it'll all go up in smoke.

That is very likely. Still he is at fault. Like big corporations are responsible for their subcontractors destroying rainwood and using slave labor. "I didn't knew it!" stopped to be an apology long ago.

Not that i claim you said that, and it probably happened that way, still the bucket stops with Elon.

[Edge-]

That is very likely. Still he is at fault. Like big corporations are responsible for their subcontractors destroying rainwood and using slave labor. "I didn't knew it!" stopped to be an apology long ago.

Not that i claim you said that, and it probably happened that way, still the bucket stops with Elon.

It's much easier: These are fundamentally unserious people. Leon doesn't have an actual interest in politics, he's just throwing money at a wall because he's either terrified of something if Donald doesn't win, as some have theorized, or because he's doing too much ketamine combined with surrounding himself with sycophants that's fucking pickling his damned brain.

[ringpriest]

That is very likely. Still he is at fault. Like big corporations are responsible for their subcontractors destroying rainwood and using slave labor. "I didn't knew it!" stopped to be an apology long ago.

Not that i claim you said that, and it probably happened that way, still the bucket stops with Elon.

Yep. It's the inverse of "I was just following orders". "I had no idea what the people following my orders were doing!" is not an excuse, it's a confession.

[Edge-]

I'm confused by this.

So his lawyers argument is, "The PAC is a federally registered entity so we are immune from state laws."? Because that's what it reads like.

And it just got...moved to federal court? I need to drink a cup of coffee and do more reading because this makes no sense to me.

A federal judge in Pennsylvania on Friday sent back to state court a lawsuit against Elon Musk and his political action committee over their $1 million daily giveaway to voters in swing states.

Ok so seems like a stupid bullshit delay tactic that shouldn't have been allowed in the first place but when you're rich you can do anything and the courts will never do shit about it, I guess.

- - - Updated - - -

https://archive.is/F5ib2

Leon's PAC is getting a class action against it from folks that his PAC duped -

Elon Musk’s America PAC and several other defendants, including the reelection campaign for Representative Michelle Steel, a Republican from California, are accused of violating California labor law in a class action lawsuit filed in Orange County on October 30, according to court documents obtained by WIRED.

The named plaintiffs, Tamiko Anderson and Patricia Kelly, were canvassers for Steel in October of this year, according to the suit, which alleges that they weren’t paid agreed-upon wages. America PAC is named because it provided campaigning services for Steel.

The plaintiffs are also suing over an alleged failure to reimburse business expenses and for allegedly being provided inaccurate wage statements. The suit seeks class certification for all current and former canvassers who were non-exempt employees of the Steel campaign from October 30, 2023 to the present.

These allegations are different from those WIRED reported earlier this week, when canvassers in Michigan said they were tricked and threatened as part of Elon Musk and America PAC’s get-out-the-vote effort for Donald Trump. The door knockers, who worked for a subcontractor of America PAC, were flown to Michigan, driven in the back of a U-Haul, and told they would have to pay hotel bills unless they met unrealistic quotas. One was surprised to find, upon arrival in Michigan, that they were working to elect Donald Trump.

The Blair Group, a North Carolina firm that the complaint claims is a political consultancy, and Liberty Staffing Services, a Florida firm specializing in hiring and payroll for canvassers and other W2 employees of political campaigns, are the other named defendants. Neither immediately responded to requests for comment. The suit also lists unknown Johns Doe as defendants.

The plaintiffs are owed money, according to the suit.

“As with other members of the Class, Plaintiffs were guaranteed an agreed upon wage hourly wage [sic] upon starting their employment. However, Plaintiffs are informed and believe that Defendants failed to pay them at the correct hourly wage, and, instead, paid them based on the number of residences they canvassed. To date, Plaintiffs have yet to receive the underpaid wages owed to them,” the complaint states.

The defendants in the lawsuit also were not reimbursed for downloading various apps on their personal devices, according to the complaint. The plaintiffs also allege their cell phones were used to track time worked, but that they still were not compensated for those hours.

America PAC, into which Musk has poured more than $100 million, has largely taken up get-out-the-vote operations in key swing states for the Donald Trump campaign. Widespread reports depict its operations as a mess, though—in addition to WIRED’s reporting on its efforts in Michigan, The Guardian has reported that up to 25 percent of its door knocks may be fraudulent, and NBC has reported that campaign operatives have concerns about “suspect data.” In an election all polls show as a toss-up, a shambolic field operation could well mean the difference between victory and defeat.

Neither Alex Spiro, Musk’s attorney, nor a spokesperson for X, which Musk owns, immediately replied to requests for comment and requests to be put in touch with a representative of America PAC, which does not list contact information on its website. The Steel campaign also did not immediately reply to requests for comment. A representative for The Blair Group also did not return a request for comment.

It'll be funny seeing how many lawsuits Leon can rack up in such a short time of being a monied political operative!

[D Luniz]

It's much easier: These are fundamentally unserious people. Leon doesn't have an actual interest in politics, he's just throwing money at a wall because he's either terrified of something if Donald doesn't win, as some have theorized, or because he's doing too much ketamine combined with surrounding himself with sycophants that's fucking pickling his damned brain.

There is the question of who is backing his loans, cause he sure as hell aint repaying them from Twitter's (X) profits.
And even the most legit bank would have hit "We're sending some guys" level of demand by now.

[Fugus]

There is the question of who is backing his loans, cause he sure as hell aint repaying them from Twitter's (X) profits.
And even the most legit bank would have hit "We're sending some guys" level of demand by now.

I might be going into tin foil hat territory but wasn’t Musk also caught communicating with Putin too?

Helping Trump and platforming and amplifying the conspiracy theory theories like he does and silencing decent could very well align with help from and for Russia, especially after he was forced into paying 44 billion for a social media company he didn’t want to buy because of his mouth and then running it into the ground, again because of his mouth.

Doubly so after he tried to hamper Ukraine communications after meeting with them until the US government was preparing to cut him out of future stuff if he did.

Edit: could just be musk being Musk since evidently he has always been an entitled kid with an over inflated sense of self worth.

[D Luniz]

I might be going into tin foil hat territory but wasn’t Musk also caught communicating with Putin too?

Helping Trump and platforming and amplifying the conspiracy theory theories like he does and silencing decent could very well align with help from and for Russia, especially after he was forced into paying 44 billion for a social media company he didn’t want to buy because of his mouth and then running it into the ground, again because of his mouth.

Doubly so after he tried to hamper Ukraine communications after meeting with them until the US government was preparing to cut him out of future stuff if he did.

Edit: could just be musk being Musk since evidently he has always been an entitled kid with an over inflated sense of self worth.

Musk has been regularly talking with Putin for at least the last two years (which make since when you look at Musk's statements and what he supports)
https://apnews.com/article/musk-puti...336771280ae179

[ringpriest]

There is the question of who is backing his loans, cause he sure as hell aint repaying them from Twitter's (X) profits.
And even the most legit bank would have hit "We're sending some guys" level of demand by now.

Elon was forced by court order to reveal Twitter's owners.

USA Today had the best short run-down I could find:
X's initial shareholder list unveiled: Sean 'Diddy' Combs, Jack Dorsey, Bill Ackman tied to platform,

In addition to Combs and Dorsey, the other nearly 100 X Holdings Corp. shareholders listed include: venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal al Saud; UnipolSai S.P.A., an Italian financial services company based in Bologna; and 8VC, a venture capital firm co-founded by Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of software company Palantir, according to an unsealed court document obtained by the Washington Post.

Jack Dorsey is the founder and former owner of Twitter (he's nutty by billionaire standards, but seems sane compared to Musk), Ackman is a rabidly pro-Israeli venture capitalist from the pro-billionaires wing of the Democratic party. Andreessen is a Silicon Valley billionare (via Netscape), who has moved his support to Trump as Biden failed to cater to billionaires sufficiently. His business partner Horowitz (also via Netscape) was avidly pro-Trump until last month when, belatedly realizing Trump might lose, he started dumping money to Harris as well. Others listed include noted child rapist and rapper Sean "Puff Daddy" Coombs, 3rd generation member of the Saudi dictatorship's ruling family Al Waleed bin Talal Al Saud who has an unclear but seemingly favorable relationship with Acting Dictator MBS, UnipolSai is part of one of Italy's larger financial conglomerates, and 8VC is a Peter Thiel (patron of GOP VP nominee JD Vance) affiliated venture capital fund. There's also a number of more conventional "someone told us this would make money" types like Fidelity (who have effectively been suckered - high finance is not really brighter than Joe Sixpack, in many ways) and a bunch I don't recognize, other than as shell companies and wealth management fronts, who could be fronting for anyone, from well-off posters here to Putin himself.